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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

George Wallace

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

George Wallace has been doing stand-up for fifty years. Known for his evergreen humor, he's practically royalty in Las Vegas, where he's done so many residencies he's lost count. Wallace talks to Bullseye about his love of the 70s, welcoming everyone in the room as a performer, and the influence of preaching on his comedy style.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Morgan Sung, host of Close All Tabs from KQED, part of the NPR network, where every week we reveal how the online world collides with everyday life.

0:09.0

You don't know what's true or not, because you don't know if AI was involved in it.

0:14.0

And I think we will see it to a streamer president, maybe within our lifetimes.

0:18.1

You can find Close All Tabs wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:23.7

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of maximum fun.org and is distributed by NPR. It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne.

0:45.7

George Wallace has been doing stand-up for 50 years.

0:49.3

He's a veteran of the couches of the Tonight Show and The Late Show.

0:52.8

He's been in dozens of movies, even more TV shows.

0:55.9

He's practically royalty in Las Vegas, where he's done so many residencies he's lost count.

1:01.2

He also came up in New York alongside a somewhat famous roommate, Jerry Seinfeld.

1:06.8

And like Seinfeld's, Wallace's humor is observational.

1:10.6

The stakes are often low.

1:12.3

The punchlines and wordplay are frequent, and it's broad in the best sense of the word.

1:17.5

A George Wallace joke from 1979 still kills.

1:21.3

I'm getting scared to flight now.

1:22.7

I was in New York at the airport three weeks ago when the plane run right off the runway into the water.

1:26.8

And I'm thinking, first of all,

1:28.2

anybody's stupid enough to get on an airplane

1:30.2

with the flight number 50-50.

1:35.4

Who ever heard of flight 50-50 is always

1:37.3

flight 103-216, right?

1:39.4

50-50?

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